Ethan Spencer

Ethan Spencer (17 October 1769-17 June 1845) was a Canadian-born Colonel of the British Army who served in the War of 1812.

Biography
Ethan Spencer was born on 17 October 1769 in York, British Canada (present-day Toronto, Canada) to an Anglo-Canadian family. Spencer served in the British Army and was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Canadian Provincial Militia in 1805 at the start of the Napoleonic Wars in the case of an invasion of Canada by the French Empire. However, his first conflicts were against Indian raids by the Huron-Wyandot, a hostile tribe that was enemies with Britain's Iroquois Confederacy allies. Spencer later commanded five regiments of Canadian militia during the War of 1812, commanding them against the United States at the Battle of Hinchinbrooke in October 1812. Spencer was wounded during the clash with the Americans, but he recovered and took part in further fighting on the Great Lakes borders with the US until the war ended. Spencer died in 1845 in Montreal.